washableglue

I mailed my acceptance yesterday and I'm already having second thoughts! I had narrowed it down to Pomona College and Brown. I ultimately chose Brown partly due to the fact that it was on the East Coast, somewhere I've always wanted to live. However, just today alone, I keep hearing great new things about Pomona like their small class sizes, high MCAT scores and unique traditions...

Someone convince me that I made the right decision!

princessbell

Sorry, but only you know if you made the right decision...

but do relax! They're both fine, fine schools (you know that), and for every advantage that Pomona has, Brown has something equally as unique and awesome. Congratulations on your acceptances!

JoeTrumpet

Either school would've been the "right" choice: you're going to absolutely love your time at Brown, and you would've absolutely loved your time at Pomona College. You chose Brown for some reason, whatever reason, and that reason gives you the slight boost you needed as a basis for your decision. When both schools are so incredible, everyone resorts to splitting hairs a bit to ultimately decide, but in the grand scheme of things you'll know that either school would've provided you with an amazing experience.

Just don't worry about it. It's natural for people to have second thoughts, but they'll go away sooner or later (for some people immediately, for others after they've spent a little time at their chosen school).

You felt right about Brown when you mailed in the decision, and you will almost undoubtedly feel right about Brown for the rest of your life. Just embrace the school and learn everything about it, and reread everything that made you love it in the first place. Of course other schools might have something that makes you go "Oh, I wish I had that," but there's very little chance that a school is going to seem absolutely 100% perfect, and it doesn't have to feel 100% perfect for it to be the right choice.

Embrace it! You're going to Brown!

doopmeister1

Unique traditions? Have you heard of Josiah S. Carberry?
Josiah S. Carberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My brother goes to Harvey Mudd and keeps telling me about how much he hates the "Pomonkeys". He says they're pretentious and can't get through Mudd classes. That may just be rivalry, though.

As for the MCAT, you'll get what you get anywhere. It's you not the university. It is true that Brown doesn't have the smallest classes in the world, but it's really a matter of how you work things out. I got into a senior seminar as a first semester sophomore. Also, often the big lectures are so big because they're incredible and everyone wants to take them. City Politics, for example, gets full every year and occupies the biggest lecture hall in the school.